Category Europe

A Spanish TV documentary has claimed the explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe. The claim could overturn long-accepted beliefs about the explorer’s identity as a Genovese from the Italian peninsula. The new claims of Columbus’ ancestry…

The infected blood scandal has been described as the worst treatment disaster in the history of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). In total, almost 30,000 people in the UK contracted HIV or hepatitis after receiving blood transfusions contaminated with the viruses back…